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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1829275, member: 29751&quot;]Your fallacy is that you assume people speaking &quot;King&#039;s English&quot; would also pronounce the &quot;chi&quot; correctly.&nbsp; They probably butcher it even more than southerners.&nbsp; The &quot;heart&quot; of no-accent American English is considered St. Louis and/or Kansas City.&nbsp; I&#039;m not talking about &quot;country-folk&quot; from Missouri here, I mean metropolitan dwelling people.&nbsp; There&#039;s a reason that national newscasters are coached in pronunciation mimicking this &quot;pure American English&quot; (if such a thing can exist).</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to take offense, then more power to you.&nbsp; But, I have been in parts of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama where I honestly can&#039;t understand a word these people are saying.&nbsp; I live in Minnesota now, but grew up in the wheat belt near Kansas City -- and I definitely know what you mean by some northern accents.&nbsp; But, at least northern accents are intelligible by most other English speakers.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The thrust of my post was that, why would we expect English speakers to pronounce drachm correctly, when they have butchered almost every other borrowed word in the language. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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